Category: Energy savings

Green grow the dollars

14 November, 2008 (09:41) | Energy savings, Housing, Policy, Tax credits, US News | No comments

Green is the new black, for three reasons identified by The Economist: 
A green-home boom is getting under way, thanks to:
 
1.  Rising energy prices
 

And rising …
 
2.  New standards (the European Union’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Britain’s Code for Sustainable Homes and California’s Green Building Standards Code, to name three recent examples), and
 

Not just a [...]

Counting kilowatts

2 August, 2007 (09:43) | Economics, Energy savings, US News | No comments

 

Give people choices, and by golly they’ll make them — and maybe make better ones than you’d expect.
 

 
That’s the implication behind this story on a novel approach to utility consumption and payment described in this story from The Wall Street Journal:
 
Peter and Suzanne Price haven’t paid a monthly electricity bill since June 2006, but not [...]